Re-Quoted with comment

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/4/2009 10:04 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com> wrote:

>http://channels.isp.netscape.com/homerealestate/package.jsp?name=fte/oddnames/oddnames&floc=NI-ntk1
>
>Scary Fate for Boys With Odd Names
>
>Name your kid Ernest or Ivan, and you could be spending time at the
>police station.
>
>LiveScience.com reports that researchers at Shippensburg University
>in Pennsylvania have concluded that boys who have odd first names
>are more likely to become juvenile delinquents than boys who have
>more popular names. In other words, Ernest and Ivan are more likely
>to commit crimes as teenagers than are Michael and David.

The Importance of Not Being Ernest.

Joel

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